Complete 1930 Mexico Census Now Available Online for Free!

The FamilySearch volunteers did it! With the completion of the state of Veracruz, they indexed the entire 1930 Mexico Census—almost 13 million records. Add the census to the millions of Mexico church records FamilySearch also has online for free, and FamilySearch patrons now have a phenomenal, fundamental asset for their Mexico ancestral research. There were 59 collections updated in this release, comprising 25 million new images and records for 19 U.S. states and 16 countries. See the table below for more details. You can search all of these updated collections now for free at FamilySearch.org.

If you are enjoying the steady stream of free records added weekly, please consider “giving back” as a FamilySearch volunteer. You can start and stop volunteering at any time. Find out more at indexing.familysearch.org.

FamilySearch International is the largest genealogy organization in the world. FamilySearch is a nonprofit, volunteer-driven organization sponsored by The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. Millions of people use FamilySearch records, resources, and services to learn more about their family history. To help in this great pursuit, FamilySearch has been actively gathering, preserving, and sharing genealogical records worldwide for over 100 years. Patrons may access FamilySearch services and resources free online at FamilySearch.org or through over 4,600 family history centers in 132 countries, including the main Family History Library in Salt Lake City, Utah.

New browsable image collection. Includes passenger lists for the Holland-America Line (Holland Amerika Lijn), which transported numerous refugees from war-torn Europe to the United States prior to 1941.

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August 1, 2017 PRESERVE
THE PENSIONS ANNOUNCES RESUMPTION OF DOCUMENT CONSERVATION
AT NATIONAL ARCHIVES, DIGITIZATION SOON TO FOLLOW Austin, Texas – The
Federation of Genealogical Societies (FGS) is pleased to announce National
Archives staff have recently resumed document conservation of the War of 1812
Pension files covering surnames M(Moore)-Q. Document conservation is the
essential first step in digitizing these files. Our digitization partner,
Ancestry.com, has scheduled image capture of these newly conserved documents to
begin the second week of September 2017. As capture resumes, new images will be
added to Fold3.com on a rolling basis. The Federation and the dedicated
volunteers of the Preserve the Pensions project have worked tirelessly for well
over a year to negotiate a resolution to the work stoppage. This portion of the
project plan is expected to be completed by third quarter 2018. The War of 1812 pensions are among the most frequently requested
set of materials within th…